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Credit: Tobias Bjørkli from Pexels In the early hours, poster installers head out with buckets of wheat paste and gig advertisements, refreshing the thousands of square meters of street poster sites in Melbourne. Graffiti writers and artists also take to the walls with their pieces. Municipal surface cleaners soon follow with chemicals and pressure washers. …

Entrepreneurial growth aspirations. This figure illustrates the distribution of entrepreneurial growth aspirations (EGA) computed as the difference between the natural logarithm of the entrepreneurs' expected number of employees in 5 years and the current number of employees (including the owner-manager in both expected and current employees). Credit: Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (2023). DOI: 10.1002/sej.1492 Scholars and…

Friar Paolo Benanti wears the plain brown robes of his medieval Franciscan order as he pursues one of the most pressing issues in contemporary times: how to govern artificial intelligence so that it enriches—and doesn’t exploit—people’s lives.Benanti is the Vatican’s go-to person on the technology and he has the ear of Pope Francis as well as some of Silicon Valley’s top engineers and executives.With a background in engineering, a doctorate in moral theology, and a passion for what he calls the “ethics of technology,’’…

I). Photographs of a flat object (blue) during transfiguration and locomotion through a narrow constriction (black lines) (scale bars are 1 mm). n indicates the number of solid-liquid phase change pumping cycles to reach the particular shape and position. II) Schematic of the experimental setup. Objects of phase change material are placed on a Peltier-cooled XY-stage (dark orange). A laser spot (red) locally melts (dark blue) the solid (light blue)…

Profile views of the Apple Vision Pro (top) and Meta Quest Pro Digital Trends Following rumors of a new extended reality (XR) headset, LG CEO Cho Joo-wan made the news official, confirming it could arrive as early as 2025. It wasn’t clear if this would be an LG branded product or if the headset is made in partnership with another company, such as Meta, but the timing is right to launch an Apple Vision Pro competitor. LG isn’t new to XR, but its last VR headset was released seven years ago. This makes it seem unlikely…

Warning: This article includes spoilers for this week's Season of the Wish story events in Destiny 2. You might want to finish it before reading further.With what is ostensibly the conclusion of the story of the Season of the Wish, Destiny 2 is now proceeding to the conclusion of its 10-year story with The Final Shape. Though the next big expansion has been delayed all the way from February to June, the stage is set for players to pursue and confront the Witness, the series' biggest villain.…

In Hollywood, the planets have to be aligned to produce a mass hit the size of Barbie. After it’s all said and done, there’s no denying Margot Robbie was made for the role, but the movie could have gone many different ways, including featuring another screen beauty as the lead. Gal Gadot would have been cast as the famous doll, if producer Margot Robbie had had her way. Robbie offered the role to the Israeli actress, according to her Vogue cover story from back in May of last year, believing her to have “Barbie energy,”…

Gen AI, Data Mesh, Regulation and Observability. 2024 is going to be a fun year!source: https://www.istockphoto.com/fr Andrey Suslov2023 will forever be remembered as the year of Generative AI. In this digital age, you’d be hard-pressed to find someone with internet access who hasn’t heard of ChatGPT. If you have been around long enough to witness a technology cycle or two, you know that we are entering quite a transformative one. According to a McKinsey survey, AI adoption has doubled since 2017. While the recent…

An artist’s depiction of the Lunar Gateway (left) and airlock (right).Illustration: NASAThe United Arab Emirates (UAE) is contributing to the lunar outpost that will be built around the Moon, building the Gateway’s airlock module in a sign that the gulf country will be more involved in NASA’s Artemis program.China's Plan to Land Astronauts on the MoonThis week, NASA and the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) announced a collaboration whereby the UAE will provide the Crew and Science Airlock module for the Gateway…

Conventional wisdom holds that sexual reproduction evolved because it enables organisms to shuffle, or recombine, different alleles (versions of a gene) in the next generation, producing the genetic variation that is foundational to natural selection and adaptation. But in recent years researchers have started to find that all regions of the genome do not shuffle equally. Some regions, which can contain just a few genes or sometimes hundreds, rarely shuffle. As a result, the same combination of alleles is transmitted all…